Chapter 980: Blood stains the Uma River
This battle and the state cavalry can be called a dripping and joyful, perhaps they have not won such a hearty victory for a long time, these state cavalry showed great excitement, and the joy was overflowing.
The retreat of the Sima army led to a complete collapse, and the pursuit of the state army was carried out almost without resistance, and Hu Fen, who was in charge of the break, was simply unable to resist the pursuit of the state army, and this chase was one-sided from the beginning.
The interception of the first camp made the situation even more chaotic, Sima Jun hit the flat box car and broke his head, and resolutely chose to swim down the river to escape in this most tragic way.
Cao Liang admires the courage of a strong man like Sima Yi to break his wrist, but Sima Yi thinks that as long as he can survive success, he can escape, which is a little too simple. Since Cao Liang was able to block Sima Jun on the banks of the Wuma River, it proved that he had studied the possible movements of Sima Jun, and the move to cross the river was of course also within Cao Liang's consideration.
Although the Wuma River is not too wide, the width of the river is only about two or three miles away, but the water flow is abundant, for most of the Sima soldiers who do not know the water, this Wuma River is undoubtedly a moat, if you want to cross the river, at least you must be prepared to drown more than half of the people.
What's more, the war horse can not cross the river, even if some of the Sima army can get lucky to climb to the opposite bank, but if they lose the war horse, the speed of escape will be greatly reduced, and the state army only needs a little time to set up a pontoon bridge on the Wuma River and cross the Wuma River to pursue, a group of remnants without war horses are defeated, where can they flee to?
In fact, when Cao Liang launched the pursuit of the large army, he had already built a temporary improvised pontoon bridge in the upper reaches of the Wuma River.
Although the number of people who can pass on this pontoon bridge is limited, but to deal with the remnants of the Sima army after crossing the river, there is no need to send many men and horses to the state army, Cao Liang in the pursuit of the same at the same time, another cavalry force of more than 1,000 people, waiting in the upper reaches of the Wuma River, just wait for the pontoon bridge to be completed, they immediately cross the river, the remnants of the Sima army to pursue and annihilate.
Cao Liang's goal this time is not to give Sima Yi any chance to escape, and if he wants to fight, he must fight a beautiful encirclement and annihilation battle, and it is best to capture Sima Yi alive and end this war once and for all.
The Sima army abandoned their horses and jumped into the river one after another, and the advance speed of the state army became faster, and the three cavalry were advancing in unison at this moment to attack the Sima army that was still on the shore.
This kind of attack was completely devastating, and the state army swept everything on the battlefield like an autumn wind sweeping away leaves, and everywhere it went, it was completely razed by iron hooves.
Seeing the overwhelming offensive of the Bingzhou army, those Sima soldiers who were still hesitating finally mustered up the courage, stripped off their armor, threw away their weapons, and plunged into the river without hesitation.
In fact, the vast majority of those who hesitate now are those who don't know how to swim, and those who really know how to swim have jumped into the river early, and those who are fast have already gone ashore at this moment.
Many people jumped into the water, and immediately regretted it, there was water in all directions, a mouth, water poured straight into the throat, they couldn't breathe at all, their lungs were about to explode, and the pain of dying made them unbearable.
But in the water, they don't even have the ability to commit suicide, except for helplessly sinking and floating in the water, they can only resign themselves to fate, waiting for the coming of death.
Rather than this, it is better to stay on the shore, anyway, the saber of the state army is swung over, and the pain is only a momentary thing, and if you don't even feel the pain, the head has already landed.
And now, they can only suffocate to death, and this waiting time for death seems to be longer than their whole life, and they will have to endure endless suffocation pain before their consciousness disappears.
The archers rushed to the river, began to fire arrows at the Sima soldiers in the river, one by one the arrows roared towards the river, the head of the Sima army on the river was quite dense, and in the face of the sudden arrows, they had no way to dodge, many people were hit by arrows, and the screams of tragic death kept coming from the river.
The water of the Wuma River also turned red, and the blood flowing out of Sima Bing stained the river red, and the originally turbid river water turned into a dark red color, mixed with countless floating corpses, all flowing downstream, and the heavy smell of blood diffused in the air on the river surface, which was a disgusting taste.
Sima Bing felt the threat of death, and desperately rowed his arms, trying to swim out of the range of the bow and arrow of the Bingzhou army, but their actions were purely futile, the speed of people swimming in the water was not even as fast as walking on the shore, how could they escape the bow and arrow as fast as the wind, and the Bingzhou army not only used bows and arrows to attack, but also used repeating crossbows.
The crossbow is a big killer weapon that has an overwhelming advantage when dealing with weak chickens that have no defensive ability, and the dense arrows can easily take away countless lives, covering the place, Sima Bing rarely has survivors, the entire river surface is full of floating corpses, dense, uncountable, even the river water does not flow smoothly, and the entire river surface has to be completely dyed red by blood.
Sima Zhao was a little anxious, seeing that the Bingzhou cavalry was getting closer and closer to them, and the number of Sima soldiers who were shot in the middle of the river was uncountable, crossing the river at this time was already a very dangerous thing, but Sima Yi still looked blank and stood motionless by the river.
No one knows whether Sima Yi can swim or not, but at Sima Yi's age, even if he knows how to swim, I am afraid he will not have the physical strength to swim to the other side, which is also a point that Sima Zhao is very worried about.
But Sima Yi was still very calm, he was more concerned about the number of Sima soldiers crossing the river, judging from the current situation, the number of people crossing the river did not seem to be ideal, and the number of people standing on the opposite bank was only thousands, I am afraid that it was not even a tenth.
More Sima soldiers were buried in the Wuma River, and just looking at the red color of the river and the dense floating corpses that made people's scalps tingle, it was enough to make people's hearts palpitate.
Sima Yi's face turned a little pale, and his eyes became dim, this battle is not over, but Sima Yi has experienced the most painful defeat in his life, 70,000 cavalry, almost the whole army is wiped out on the battlefield of Qixian County, Sima Yi has fought a lifetime of battles, and he has not lost so badly as today.
Sima Yi couldn't help but sigh, the defeat of this battle will also completely shatter Sima Yi's dream of winning the world, and the ideal for which he has fought all his life will also disappear with the flow of the Wuma River, never to return.